Does leaning to the left make the Eiffel Tower seem smaller?

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Nobel Prize laureate for Economics in 2007 Eric Maskin (L-R), Nobel Prize laureate for Medicine in 1993 Richard Roberts, Nobel Prize laureate for Chemistry in 1986 Dudley Herschbach, keynote speaker Robert Kirshner and Nobel Prize laureate for Physics in 2005 Roy Glauber lean to the left to demonstrate the Ig Nobel Psychology Prize winners' study that "Leaning to the Left Makes the Eiffel Tower Seem Smaller" during the 22nd First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts September 20, 2012. The annual Ig Nobel prizes, meant to celebrate the unusual and encourage scientific research, are awarded by the science humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research (AIR) as a whimsical counterpart to the Nobel Prizes. Reuters